“Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.” TwoFunnyHappinessWatchesWeekFindingsSittingNeighborVacationSlidesTwo WeeksColonySitting DownNudists Author:Johnny Carson
“Sometimes, when I'm sitting with people who have been stripped of everything and who are naked and authentic and finding themselves for the first time, I am reminded of how good people really are.” PeopleFirstsHas BeensSometimesFindingsSittingFirst TimeNakedGood People Author:Marianne Williamson
“My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.” PeopleHardFindingsSittingGrandmotherOwnersGrandparentMy GrandmotherFragmentsMonumentAntsBenchesCrawlingTombstoneGlaciersWheelbarrows Book:Letters Source: Letters
“In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.” WayFeelsWellsStillsCertainComfortableFindingsSingingSittingGuitarMy WayAcousticsGrooveReggaeAcoustic Guitar Author:Colin Hay
“I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.” MindDifferentFindingsPagesSittingDown AndDrawingTake MeSitting DownDifferent Directions Author:David Finch
“A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.” NeedsSeemsHappensEssentialsFindingsSittingDiscoveryPlantExploringHarvestEssaysCropsBeansCascade Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Sometimes we are looking for somebody we can connect with on the basis of a shared past or a tradition or experience. And so finding that you're sitting next to someone very much like you in terms of where they come from is enormously reassuring.” SometimesPastNextTermLike YouFindingsSittingTraditionBasesReassuring Author:Mohsin Hamid
“And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.” LifeShouldChildrenLittlesSometimesDreamHandsLife IsFallNextAnimalTalkingFlowerOne DayFindingsSittingFalling In LoveAncientObviousKneesEach DayCollectionsSunsetBreezeGood DayBenchesRefreshingOne Day At A TimeCreeksSitting On The Bench Author:Nicholas Sparks
“The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.” KnowsLifeAmericaFoundLeftWaitingFindingsSittingExploringMiceBetter OffOwn BusinessLeft AlonePajamasCupboards Author:John Boyne
“There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.” IfsShouldMayReasonEyeLife IsSeeingWasteFindingsPagesSittingDrawingBoredReason WhyNo ReasonFinding YourselfWeedBlankToo ShortUp To YouLife Is Too ShortBlank PagesHedgerows Book:Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
“One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.” Life IsGirlWaitingMistakeFindingsSittingSitting AroundBiggest MistakeRomantic LifeSitting Around Waiting Author:Meg Cabot
“You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.” MadePlayThreeSinCasesSonFindingsSittingInstrumentsBlindSettlingMy SonWithin YouMiceUnexploredGloriaInstruments Of God Author:Abraham Verghese